Publications

Publication details [#30498]

Britain, David. 2002. Diffusion, levelling, simplification and reallocation in past tense BE in the English Fens. Journal of Sociolinguistics 6 (1) : 16–43.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language contact | past | standard1 vs. dialect2 | tense

Language as a subject

English, British

Place, Publisher

Blackwell Publishers

ISBN

1360-6441

Journal WWW

www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/bpl/josl

Annotation

This paper uses a survey of the Fenland dialect of eastern England to explore consequences of the mixing of different grammatical systems of English, focusing on dialect contact processes that reconfigure variable patterns of past tense British English.